When Silicon Thinks Faster Than Flesh

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They say the chips think faster now, a trillion choices in a breath, broadband wide as highways, while hands that built the world sit idle in the waiting room of obsolescence.

Who works when work is just a memory uploaded to machines that never sleep, never ask for raises, never dream?

They’ll give us income, universal, a basic promise, monthly bread, but whose hand controls the faucet? Whose finger on the valve decides if we eat or beg?

The government, they say, will tax the titans, route the river from their vaults into our cups. Trust us, they say. We’ll be fair, they say.

But I’ve seen power and power doesn’t share unless someone is watching, unless someone can say no.

So here’s the question that should keep us awake: Who decides the numbers? Who writes the code? Who checks the checkers?

We need our people at that table, not later, not when we’re already hungry, not when dependence has made us quiet, but now, while we still have leverage, while we can still demand to see the blueprints of our own tomorrow.

A citizen council, elected, accountable, with power to audit, to veto, to verify that justice isn’t just a promise whispered down from towers but a right we enforce ourselves.

The future is being written in boardrooms we can’t enter, in algorithms we can’t read.

and if we don’t demand a seat at that table now, we’ll inherit a world where someone else decides if we deserve to live.

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